367 Ocean Quotes for You to Enjoy

Bottom trawling is a ghastly process that brings untold damage to sea beds that support ocean life. It's akin to using a bulldozer to catch a butterfly, destroying a whole ecosystem for the sake of a few pounds of protein. We wouldn't do this on land, so why do it in the oceans? Sylvia Earle

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Every fish fertilizes the water in a way that generates the plankton that ultimately leads back into the food chain, but also yields oxygen, grabs carbon - it's a part of what makes the ocean function and what makes the planet function. Sylvia Earle

Food Water Ocean Every Back Way Food Chain Part Leads Also Makes Fish Ultimately Yields Oxygen Planet Chain Function Carbon

I want everybody to go jump in the ocean to see for themselves how beautiful it is, how important it is to get acquainted with fish swimming in the ocean, rather than just swimming with lemon slices and butter. Sylvia Earle

Beautiful Important Ocean Swimming Everybody See Rather How Fish Go Jump Than Get Just Want Lemon Acquainted Themselves Butter

I'm not against extracting a modest amount of wildlife out of the ocean for human consumption, but I am really concerned about the large-scale industrial fishing that engages in destructive practices like trawling and longlining. Sylvia Earle

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Health to the ocean means health for us. Sylvia Earle

Health Ocean Us Means

Since the middle of the 20th century, more has been learnt about the ocean than during all preceding human history; at the same time, more has been lost. Sylvia Earle

Time History Ocean Lost Has-Been About More Since Learnt Been Than Same Human Same Time Middle Century Human History

As a child, I was aware of the widely-held attitude that the ocean is so big, so resilient that we could use the sea as the ultimate place to dispose of anything we did not want, from garbage and nuclear wastes to sludge from sewage to entire ships that had reached the end of their useful life. Sylvia Earle

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I became interested in ocean issues in the 1980s when I couldn't take my daughters swimming because of pollution at our local beach. Twenty-five years later, I'm a board member of Oceana, the world's largest international organization dedicated to ocean conservation. Ted Danson

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Centuries-old habitats such as coral gardens are destroyed in an instant by bottom trawls, pulverized by weighted nets into barren plains. And global carbon dioxide emissions from human activity affect the ocean, changing the pH balance of the waters in a phenomenon known as ocean acidification. Ted Danson

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I first saw the ocean as a kid. We would drive from Arizona in the summer and arrive as the sun was starting to come down over the hill near Laguna in southern California. We would always sing a song, and it was a big joyous family moment when we came over the hill. Ted Danson

Family Song Drive First Big Ocean Down Summer Saw Kid Sun Would Arizona Over Come Hill Joyous Sing California Always Came Arrive Southern Southern California Moment Near Starting

Math education has changed over the years. In the 19th century, they taught spherical trigonometry because one of the biggest applications of mathematics was navigating the ocean. This is no longer so relevant. Terence Tao

Education Mathematics Ocean Changed Relevant Longer Over Because Math Years Taught Biggest Century Applications

I don't know a single surfer who would say, 'Gee, I wish there were no sharks in the ocean.' Terri Irwin

Sharks Wish Single Ocean Say Would Gee Know Were Who

The only time I get afraid is when I am at the ocean. I get a little nervous when I'm in the water because I always feel like something is going to bite or snatch me. Texas Battle

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I was thinking recently, I've always loved the ocean. If I could do it all again, I might do an oceanography degree. You can do ocean archaeology, and I thought that might be fascinating to do - man-made structures, where the sea has risen above the structures. Theo James

The Mediterranean Sea with its various branches, penetrating far into the great Continent, forms the largest gulf of the ocean, and, alternately narrowed by islands or projections of the land and expanding to considerable breadth, at once separates and connects the three divisions of the Old World. Theodor Mommsen

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If, as the emperor Augustus says, from his time the coast of the ocean from Cadiz to the mouth of the Elbe obeyed the Romans, the obedience in this corner of it was far from voluntary and little to be trusted. Theodor Mommsen

Time Obedience Ocean Mouth Corner Says Obeyed Voluntary Emperor His Trusted Romans Little Far Coast

That's what I like about Frank Ocean or Bon Iver - they try to capture a feeling in the most sincere way. Todd Rundgren

Try Feeling Ocean Way Frank About Sincere Like Most Capture

The ocean, to me, is one of the most terrifying things on the planet. Tom Holland

Me Ocean Most Terrifying Planet Things

Once you start looking into the infrastructure, it becomes obvious very quickly that 99 percent of the world's information goes through little tubes under the ocean. Those are very juicy targets for someone who wants to surveil the world. Trevor Paglen

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When I was little I had this notion of being a marine biologist. I grew up by the ocean so I was always in the water but realistically, I don't think I would make the best marine biologist. Victoria Justice

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What came out of 'Ocean's Twelve' is actually great because you do one 'Ocean's Twelve,' and you're more known around the world than if you did 20 years in the French cinema industry. Vincent Cassel

Great You World Cinema Ocean Out More French Industry Known Because Around Came Years Than Did Twelve Actually

Ultimately, I would love to do 'The Emperor of Ocean Park' by Stephen Carter. Wendell Pierce

Love Ocean Would Carter Park Emperor Ultimately

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